Twitter today announced today that, after a substantial wait, Nokia Symbian OS (Series 40) users will finally be able to download the official Twitter client app to their devices. The real question is: why did it bother?

In an interview with Neowin, Nokia's vice president of worldwide developer relations, Richard Kerris, has explained that the company's PureView camera technology currently featured only in the 808 is coming to the Lumia range "very soon".

Nokia's 808 PureView made a big splash and caused a fair bit of controversy at MWC this year. 41 actual megapixels crammed into a cameraphone? It sounds ludicrous, especially when you hear it's running Symbian.

Dreamt up in a hotel bar in Japan by a couple of Nokia execs, the Nokia 808 Pureview phone has completely stolen MWC with its 41MP sensor. I grabbed some time with Nokia's lead programme manager for imaging, Damian Dinning, to chat about how it's "almost like just invented time travel, it's that extreme".

MWC is so very, very close, and the rumours are swirling. Among the more promising is that Nokia will unveil a whole suite of new handsets. Not just Windows Phone devices either; a split of WP7, Symbian and feature phones.

A little over a week ago, Nokia killed off the Symbian name, instead calling the platform Nokia Belle and, hopefully, letting it die a swift and unencumbered death. And then yesterday we find out that the very same Symbian, is the most popular mobile platform in the whole wide world.

In a branding equivalent of quietly dumping a corpse off a pier in the middle of the night, Nokia is retiring the Symbian moniker for good. Except it's not dead — now it's just called Nokia Belle. Belle! Ha! Ha.

Hey look! There are three new Symbian phones out today. What? Where? Why, they're over there, next to the pennyfarthings and the ham radios: the obsolete section. What the crap is going on here, Nokia?

Nokia's just released three new smartphones for the masses. Ok! And they're all running a new version of SymbianOS. OK? After all the despair and hardship that led up to their teaming up with Microsoft, shouldn't Symbian be dead by now?

Thought the situation at Nokia was dire already? They've just reported their first quarterly loss in 18 months, recording $US521 million loss, compared to the $US322 million profit they made in the same period last year.

We're hardly the target audience for a pink phone and Lady Gaga-esque visuals, but Nokia's latest commercial does make me laugh. Or weep, when I remember that Nokia's stock prices are at a 13-year low.

Nokia's got a new teaser trailer out for their shiny N9. And, like most Nokia hardware, it's great looking! Except for what's on the screen, which, as commenters are pointing out, appears to be Symbian. Ugh. Nokia: give us Windows.

In terms of smartphone operating systems, Symbian is far from our favourite. But it does have some pretty nifty tricks up its sleeve, including the ability to control certain Symbian Nokia phones using a Wiimote.

Yesterday we questioned why anyone would jump on board the dying Symbian smartphone platform when Nokia announced its new X7 and E6 smartphones. Today Nokia gave us the answer - they're not taking the platform off life support until 2013 at least.

Anyone who had their hopes set on the death of Symbian following Nokia's partnership with Microsoft is going to be sorely disappointed with the Finnish handset makers announcement of not only two new Symbian smartphones, but an updated version of Symbian as well.

Either this is the world's dullest April Fool's gag, or Nokia really has released the source code for Symbian. If it's the latter, that means developers can tinker with the builds, now that Nokia will no longer be developing the platform itself.